“Prayer is an issue that many Christians end up sidestepping or sort of giving up on. Many of us would probably admit that we don’t really have a great understanding or experience of prayer. We all know it’s important and we all do it at some level, but if we were polled anonymously, a lot of Christians might say that much of their prayer life is brief, repetitive, and feels mechanical.
Maybe it’s only pastors. A recent survey showed that only 16% of pastors feel very satisfied with their prayer lives.
But God does not want us to feel unsatisfied with this aspect of our faith. He has given us prayer as a gift. And of course we’re not going to have a perfect prayer life, but that’s no reason to allow it to fall by the wayside.“
